i've got the most important video you'll ever make
bring your camera life-changing this is the greatest tech discovery in the
history of cycling from nick ps bring some time i think we better take a trip to the bike shop
a couple of videos back i said how my legs didn't hurt that much after doing a 5k run
turns out there's a reason it's called delayed onset muscle soreness feeling rough i don't
know if it's because of the run but the last few days i've been completely wrecked
fell asleep on the sofa at 8pm last night woke up at 8 a.m that's weird right
back again what is this mad conspiracy you have discovered i've come down especially weight saving
come inside lewis there's our stock and stuff it doesn't really ride bikes told the customer
the other day the tan wall tires are lighter than black instead of laughing him i thought you know
i'll just play along some of our gravel tires you get light and supple and you get durable so i took
a light and supple tan tire and a durable black tire which obviously a lot heavier weighed it
obviously to play along for a bit and then it was a big joke for a day and then i came clean saying
obviously i cheated got bored later on decided to film more tires you have to give it to the kid
he was right prepare to be amazed scales still can't believe this hutchinson fusion
five performance ties exactly the same ones both 25 more one's black one's tan black tyre
252 how much lighter do you think the tan is gonna be
that's significant exactly so my calculations are right
swap from black to time cost you know extra money leave your handlebar tape off
bar tape drop that off 220 grams so jira ace to ultegra 12 speed it's 278 grams weight difference
but cost you one and a half thousand pounds that's three weight savings for all the weight weenies
out there but you have only tested one type of tire every single tire that i could find the same
i thought you bike shop guys had work to do but obviously not you've just literally been filming
tight you've literally been testing tires james is back so he gets to do all the work to be fair
he's been having a jolly in thailand for the last few weeks he only weighs like 61 kilos and i'm at
85 so i need to find any kind of bed i can get to get closer to home so i've weighed more tires this
is a conspiracy there's two gravel ties exact same size exact same light and supple makeup
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705 it's like 80 grams more 700 by 42. black 514
465. i need more time are there any tyre manufacturers that explicitly quote a
different weight for their town walls versus their black tires have you checked this obviously
interrogator lewis find out ways to come up with these crazy fans yeah um you're ready on the wtv
website apparently town walls you can see the carcass well that's an actual sewn on tan walls
yeah yeah like it well perhaps not sewn on but it's a separate thing it's not just painted on
like something yeah so that's the carcass and i think this one to make them black i assume they
are dipping them so there's more rubber like you feel that sticky on that side where that's smooth
is there any benefit to having rubber more on the sides are you ever banking the bike
enough to touch that on the ground tubeless probably slightly better seal you know some time
sidewall tires like they're like sweat i'm super serious yeah you get all the bubbles coming out
and then i don't know it might be stronger more resistant so obviously it's benefits i feel like
we need to test more brands of tyre and other models and other models yeah i'm assuming lots
of you in the audience may have some accurate scales at home as well like kitchen scales for
weighing your coffee and things like that maybe do some testing put it down in the comment section
down below are you finding the same thing that we're finding because this is a big conspiracy
793 653 see that saving is huge 280 grams more bike in this case these are more durable yes i
did cut this tire on my first ride straight away obviously that's just bad luck i'd be
interested to check the ones that are the same model but on mountain bikes because the overall
tyre weight is higher so i'm assuming the difference will then be bigger and if you're
going for the same amount of punch protection but just one's towel and one is black i don't
see any downsides so perhaps on a mountain bike like particularly a cross country bike
where you want the minimal weight possible maybe town wars is the way forward as you say there
might be some downsides to tubeless but maybe i'll ask hutchinson and they can comment on it
we've just saved people a lot of weight at all money 23 years of doing this
i've never heard of lewis for a whole day literally before you made it up sorry louis
sorry for not trusting you you never lie you never lie i thought it felt a bit easy riding here
headwind all the way home at least i'm on my nice aero bike it's not working
so that's it tyre illuminati confirmed in other news life news studio news our
message late last week with a photo of how the studio is progressing should be ready
maybe tomorrow which will obviously mean i'm going to get down there as soon as possible
start moving stuff in see how much i can get done before christmas because we're going back
south on the 23rd i feel very out of breath so i just rode that whole r section full gas
bad time to talk to the camera as soon as i get organized with that i'll take you guys
along inside the camera you're very small and show you and i'll also reveal the one big secret that
our studio has it's a thing that's going to be very handy when it comes to making these videos
just started cooking some dinner but then this box turned up daisy were in energy gels
and carb drink yeah all right should probably not attempt this uh pronunciation on video yet these
guys sent me some gels and some carb mix usually my message in these videos is that you're buying
gels for convenience so an easy to open packet not as fiddly as usual foods from the supermarket are
but these are made to a special formula which should mean you can absorb more of the
carbohydrate than usual gels which are just like sugar mixed with water what's more i read on the
internet that ninety percent of the pro peloton are actually using the same ratio of carbohydrates
to fructose or whatever it is inside these so i'm gonna be testing them out and i'll see uh if my
stomach can stomach them and i have something very cool coming up which will be perfect for
testing them out too in between christmas and new year carb mix has caffeine in i'm gonna be buzzing
probably shouldn't drink any right now no look i look like the train kid here
it's very close
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